They recently received 200k from the Dfinity project
The company mentioned to give the money, "Dfinity", has no mention of Scuttlebutt on their Twitter, Medium, or company website. I can only seem to find things related to the Dfinity token presale and airdrop, which I assume is an ICO.
Scuttlebutt would greatly benefit from having a real source of funding. If anyone can provide proof Scuttlebutt is now funded please post it here.
The grants issued this month are for client maintenance/features, hosted pubs, and on-boarding.
FWIW, most SSB talk happens on SSB, and "Funded" has a very different meaning to the VC world.